Topic #89 When did you realize you were an adult? (If you haven’t yet, when do you think you will?)
When I was twelve, I felt very grown up, but by the time I graduated from high school, I’d figured out that I wasn’t. I lived abroad for a year, and I thought I’d feel grown up about that, but although I felt more mature than a lot of teens I knew, I still didn’t feel grown up. When I got married, and then had babies, I expected to feel grown up, but I didn’t. When we bought our first house, I felt like I was doing all the grown up things, but I still didn’t feel grown up. Now I have a career or two, the kids are grown and gone, and I still don’t feel grown up!
Perhaps because I have been so blessed to have avoided many of the tragedies that often strike us and steal our youthful effervescence. Perhaps because I have a great husband who looks after all the ‘responsible’ stuff, I’m not burdened by them. I am free to do the things that I enjoy: writing, dancing, volunteering, sewing, knitting, travelling, etc. Being able to do those things makes me happy and carefree, rather than tired and grown up.
I have a friend who has a sign above her desk that says, “If you haven’t grown up by the time you’re 50, you don’t have to!” I kind of like that philosophy. I have a few years to go yet, but I am counting on the fact that I don’t ever have to grow up.
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How about you? Do you feel grown up?
Shawn L. Bird 
growing up April 8, 2011
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Topic #89 When did you realize you were an adult? (If you haven’t yet, when do you think you will?)
When I was twelve, I felt very grown up, but by the time I graduated from high school, I’d figured out that I wasn’t. I lived abroad for a year, and I thought I’d feel grown up about that, but although I felt more mature than a lot of teens I knew, I still didn’t feel grown up. When I got married, and then had babies, I expected to feel grown up, but I didn’t. When we bought our first house, I felt like I was doing all the grown up things, but I still didn’t feel grown up. Now I have a career or two, the kids are grown and gone, and I still don’t feel grown up!
Perhaps because I have been so blessed to have avoided many of the tragedies that often strike us and steal our youthful effervescence. Perhaps because I have a great husband who looks after all the ‘responsible’ stuff, I’m not burdened by them. I am free to do the things that I enjoy: writing, dancing, volunteering, sewing, knitting, travelling, etc. Being able to do those things makes me happy and carefree, rather than tired and grown up.
I have a friend who has a sign above her desk that says, “If you haven’t grown up by the time you’re 50, you don’t have to!” I kind of like that philosophy. I have a few years to go yet, but I am counting on the fact that I don’t ever have to grow up.
.
How about you? Do you feel grown up?
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